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Originally posted by ChuckElias
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Originally posted by drinkeii
Being aware of the situation of the game is one thing - but are the rules different at one time than at another?
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Very good point. The rules are not different at one time from some other time. So remember the rule: Never, ever, ever, ever,
ever call 3-seconds on the team that's down by 30. Ever. Doesn't matter if there's 15 seconds left in the game or if there's 10 minutes left in the first half (Heaven help you in that case!!!).
My first juco game was last Friday and it was not as competitive as I'd hoped. The home team had pulled out to a 25 point lead or so. I could've called about 5 illegal screens on the visitors in the last 3 minutes and I called exactly. . .
zero.
Remember the rule.
Just my 2 cents.
Chuck
P.S. -- if you are tempted to ask "Well, where is
that rule written down?", I'll tell you where it's written: In your assignor's and your observer's notebooks. So ignore it at your own peril. ("Let me face the peril!" "No, no. It's too perilous.")
(My post starts here - I can't get the indent to clear for some reason - drinkeii)
But it isn't written in any rule book - and if an assignor is basing their decisions on rules that don't exist, it is no different from officials calling the game based on their own rules, rather than the rules that exist for the game. How can you have a game when people make their own rules?
[Edited by drinkeii on Nov 26th, 2002 at 01:24 PM]